【推荐1】When I was a little girl of seven years old, my mother enjoyed reading books. She asked my father to bring many _________ from the town library. My father usually brought as many books as the librarian _________ at a time. My mother would not like anyone to _________ her and liked finishing a story without any breaks.

One day, my father managed to get the best _________ that the librarian recommended. After my mother knew that, she _________ bought some hot dogs because she thought that it was great for us all to enjoy the _________, accompanied by some family chats. My mother could _________ wait to give out the hot dogs and she was lost in the new novel. My father felt it _________ for her not to join in the family chats.

Now it was time to _________ something in our family. On a festival season, some guests __________ us at our home. We had a great time enjoying the festival food and the great family __________, but something was bothering my father and that was the __________ of my mother’s reading the novel. She sat on a sofa and kept reading her new novel without __________ others. My aunt noticed the behavior of my mother and decided to solve the problem in her own way.

My aunt took my mother’s novel away and didn’t give it to her until she __________ that she would never get crazy for reading novels in her life. Now, my father is still active after his retirement and my mother is still __________ reading the book but when she is alone.

【推荐2】I’ve been farming sheep on a hillside for 54 years. I use a small tractor (拖拉机) to get about. My dog Don always sits beside me in the passenger seat.

One morning I _______ a lost lamb when I was in the top field, near where a motorway cuts through my land. The lamb had become separated from its mother, so I jumped out of the tractor to tend to it while Don stayed in his seat.

Lamb and mother reunited. I turned back to the tractor only to see it move suddenly away from me. I had put the handbrake (手刹) on when I jumped out. _______ Don had somehow made the vehicle move.

My heart _______ in my chest as I saw the tractor heading towards the motorway. I ran desperately but failed to _______. It crashed through a wooden fence and disappeared. The last thing I saw was Don’s face, looking calmly back at me.

Heart in mouth, I reached the fence and looked over. The tractor was _______ against the crash barrier in the central reservation, having miraculously (奇迹般地) crossed the _______ road with fast-flowing traffic. I couldn’t see Don, but as I _______ the tractor, he jumped out onto the road, apparently unhurt, and ran back to me.

The police arrived and the motorway ran normally again. I couldn’t quite believe my _______—it turned out no one got badly hurt, but the outcome could have been _______. Don was given a special ____________ that night — I didn’t want him thinking I was angry with him.

【推荐3】“How does the yard look?” My father asked，with his eyes shining. I could tell he was eagerly waiting for my ________ “Wonderful!” I replied after I gave it a thorough ________. Then I recited all the changes I had ________ in his yard and he smiled contently.

When I was young, my mother ________ in a car accident, leaving my father alone to ________ their three young daughters. At the beginning, life was not always ________ and my younger sisters usually complained. However，Dad always ________ us to believe that life was good. Meanwhile, he tried his best to ________ that belief.

In 1972, my dad developed a piece of waste land that had been ________ on Okaloosa Island. Every year at the first sign of ________, he would begin spending countless hours working there to make it be bursting with colors. Through his continuous hard work, the land ________ turned into a beautiful garden with different types of flowers and other unique plants. While our friends were enjoying their vacation through traveling to different places, we were ________ working with my dad in his yard, watering the flowers, weeding or cutting off the branches. Sometimes, our friends were envious of our working vacation，and we would ________ them. Dad made his yard very ________ so that it became our vacation paradise (天堂) during our childhood.

For so many years, when we were ________, we liked to visit Dad's yard, because it could ________ us of Dad's belief. It was Dad and his yard that gave us ________ that enabled us to survive and ________ major challenges in life. One day, it shocked us that Dad said he would not ________ the yard. Then he explained, “Twenty years ago I decided to start my work in that yard to tell you life is good. Now my work is done.” We were sitting in ________, recalling what we had experienced. Life was good. Dad was right.

【推荐1】When a group of friends realised their friend Joe McGrath had dropped out of a pre-booked holiday, they had an idea to fill his space. They decided to offer the _________ to a stranger with the same _________ as the man they were leaving behind.

Joe McGrath, from Manchester, says when he received a message asking if he _________ to go on holiday to Spain with nine strangers he thought it was a _________. But it turned out the offer was legitimate (合情合理的).

In the message, Dan Gobio, one of the group, said, “Hi Joe. Would you _________ coming on holiday with nine strangers if they had arranged flights for you and an all-inclusive hotel?”

He added: “It’s our friend Nathan’s birthday and we _________ to throw him a surprise holiday break in Mallorca. Unluckily our friend Joe McGrath can’t _________, but we have booked it all up for him.”

Although they _________ 15 other Joe McGraths on social media (媒体), the 21-year-old from Manchester was the only one to reply and finally _________ to go on the trip.

“At first I was __________ the holiday,” McGrath says. “After speaking to Dan on the phone I realised he was __________ and this holiday was as well.”

In the end, McGrath, who works for a radio station, drove to Bristol to __________ the nine strangers. “When I turned up at Dan’s house, it was all dark. I was __________ but as soon as I met him it was __________. There was no awkwardness really.”

“They were a lovely group of people! I __________ every minute of the holiday,” says McGrath.

【推荐2】When I was in seventh grade, I was a volunteer at a local hospital in my town. Most of the _________ I spent there was with Mr. Gillespie. He never had any visitors and nobody seemed to care about his_________.

I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him, helping with anything that needed to be done. He became a close friend of mine, _________he responded with only an occasional squeeze of my hand. Mr. Gillespie was in a coma (昏迷).

I left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back, Mr. Gillespie was no longer there. I didn’t have the_________to ask any of the nurses where he was, for fear that they might tell me he had died.

Several_________later, when I was a senior in high school, I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face. When I_________who it was, my eyes filled with tears. He was_________! I got up the nerve to ask him if his name was Mr. Gillespie. He_________yes. I explained how I knew him, and that I had spent many hours talking with him in the hospital. His eyes welled up with tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever_________.

He began to tell me how, as he lay there comatose (昏迷的), he could hear me talking to him and could feel me holding his hand the whole time. Mr. Gillespie__________believed that it was my voice and touch that had kept him alive.

Although I haven’t seen him since, he fills my heart with joy every day. I know that I made a difference between his life and death.

【推荐3】From the age of eight, I had to contribute my share of labor along with my father. Our family was too _________ to afford paid laborers. Working in the rice fields was no easy job, especially in summer. The _________ sun would beat upon my arched back. With only a hat, a shirt and a pair of shorts as my _________, I would be sweating like a pig within seconds.

One day, while resting beside the field, I _________ my present life: My family was tied to land, doing _________ jobs every day. How could we and farmers like us have _________ to a better life? Thinking of this, I was suddenly _________ with great pity and great respect for them, and the focus of my _________ began to extend beyond myself and my family. A voice inside me _________ that I should do something to help that. It was right then that I __________ to pursue useful knowledge and technology to __________ their burden of labour. This undeniable (不可否定的) __________ pushed me hard to go to a university on a scholarship and __________ earn a degree on agriculture.

Although now I went into academic research, I would always __________ what working in the rice fields had taught me: Your hard work will be __________ if you plant your feet firmly on the ground, for being down-to-earth is an unbroken truth.

【推荐2】Lots of kids set up lemonade stands in the summer. For many, it’s a first step toward learning what it means to _______ your own money. For 11-year-old Cartier Carey, it was a _______ to do a lot more. That’s because Carey isn’t using his _______ to open a first savings account. _______, he’s investing it back into his community. His goal is to help single mothers in need. With all the stress and _______ uncertainty brought on by the pandemic, Carey decided to focus on the basics: diapers (尿布) and wipes.

The idea for the project _______ while Carey was visiting his grandmother who lives in one of the area’s more economically depressed neighborhoods. Carey, who is keenly observant for his age, was _______ by how many women he observed raising children on their own. By the end of July, Carey had raised close to $5,000 via the lemonade stand and from donations, and _______ about 6,500 diapers. As of September, at 22,000 diapers, he’s _______ to achieving his total goal of 25,000.

But the generous 11-year-old is no __________ to worthy causes. Before becoming a “lemonade mogul”, Carey launched (发起) another community __________ titled “Carti packs”-care packages for the homeless that __________ such necessities as deodorant, soap, tissue, and even hand-warmers for when the weather got __________.

Carey says his greatest __________ comes from knowing he’s made a difference and seeing how much his efforts have meant to the people he tries to __________.

【推荐3】The second Sunday in May is a volunteer day in my neighborhood. Last year, my neighbors and I chose to ______in the cancer ward (癌症病房) at a children’s hospital. As Children’s Day was coming, the hospital wanted us to make some cards with children, ______them stories and play games with them.

The day before we went to the ______, many of us were feeling quite nervous. We didn’t ______how to react (反应) when we saw those sick children. As we were preparing morning tea for them, I asked some ______to make chocolate bread and candies at my home.

We arrived ______the hospital early and were welcomed warmly -it was exciting to know that they were ______us and expecting what we would offer to them. Our first job was to ______morning tea to the children-it seemed nothing broke the ice better than candies!

Then, it was time to start making ______—we brought some cardboard (卡纸板), crayons, glue and shiny things to excite the children. It was amazing that soon we felt relaxed about staying with the sick children. We ______with them and helped them choose colors and styles. The children were seriously ill, ______they were positive (乐观的). Most of them______bright colors as they believed that they would be better soon. The colorful and lively cards the children had made brightened us.

Later, my neighbours and I told the children some funny stories to make them laugh ______often, and they were also very happy to play games with______. Looking at their smiling faces, we even forgot they were______.